The Most Insane Catfish I've Ever Heard Of - The Gemma Barker story

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Narrator 0:00

So this girl... You know what? You're not gonna believe this story because I'm not sure if I believe this story. It is wild. So this is Gemma. She's from England, she's in the 12th grade, and she has a best friend. This girl, Jess. And she has another best friend. This girl, who we'll call Beatrice. So Jess and Beatrice are a few years younger than Gemma, And they hang out all the time and they drive around talking about boys or whatever. But one day, Gemma starts going to college and she starts to really miss hanging out with her two friends who are still back in secondary school. So then Gemma comes up with one of the wildest plans I've ever come across to be closer to her friends. See, Gemma knows her friend Beatrice really wants a boyfriend, and she knows exactly the kind of boys Beatrice is into. So Gemma decides to catfish her and put on a disguise and low-key become the perfect boy for Beatrice. So first, she creates a Facebook profile for this fake guy and she names him Aaron.

Narrator 1:05

And she adds a profile picture of fake Aaron and she adds a bunch of friends and makes the page look legit. Then, posing as fake Aaron, Gemma adds Beatrice on Facebook and sends her a message. Sometime later, Beatrice messages back like, oh, hi, who are you? And they start chatting. And soon enough, they're chatting every day and they're really hitting it off. But after a couple of months of this, Beatrice really wants to meet Aaron in person for the first time. So now Gemma is in a predicament. She knows if Beatrice doesn't get to meet fake Aaron in person at some point, then she's going to eventually realize he isn't a real person and she's going to stop talking to him. So what does Gemma do?

Narrator 1:46

She dresses up and disguises herself as a boy and pretends to be fake Erin. She gets some baggy clothes and a beanie and she puts men's cologne all over herself and she adjusts the way she talks and the way she walks and everything. And now that she looks like a boy, she goes to meet Beatrice in person. So they meet up and somehow Beatrice has no idea this is her old friend Gemma catfishing her. So then Beatrice and fake Aaron, they meet up more and more. And she really starts to like him. And of course, Beatrice is telling her best friend Jess all about this new guy Aaron she's been hanging out with. And so now, Jess wants to meet him. And so Gemma, dressed as fake Aaron, is like, alright, let's meet.

Narrator 2:31

And so the three of them, Beatrice, Jess, and Gemma dressed as fake Aaron, they start hanging out a lot. And neither Beatrice nor Jess realize they're being catfished by their own but then at some point fake aaron asks beatrice to be his official girlfriend and boom they become official official the day after they become official jemma takes it even further she dresses up as fake aaron and she tells jess that he's got this cool friend that she might like his name's luke And fake Aaron wants to hook Jess and Luke up. And so soon enough, Jess starts messaging with this guy, Luke. And she immediately thinks Luke is fine. But here's the thing about Luke. You know how fake Aaron is really just Gemma dressed as a boy? Luke is also just Gemma dressed as a boy. So the fake Luke is chatting back and forth with Jess and pretty soon they agree to meet up.

Narrator 3:32

And they're hanging out and Jess also has no idea she too is being catfished by Gemma again. And if that isn't bad enough, one day Jess and fake Luke are hanging out and they're making out because I guess they make out? But then fake Luke gets pushy and he doesn't stop when Jess asks him to and I guess this happens a few times so eventually they break up. Good for her. Oh, but this breakup is not gonna stop Gemma. She just goes and creates another alter ego to date Jess and she dresses up like a slightly different type of boy and she calls herself Connor. So now Gemma is pretending to be this fake Connor and she makes a fake Facebook page for him and she messages Jess like, Luke told me what he did, and I just want to say, it's really not cool, and you didn't deserve that. And Jess is like, oh, he's such a nice bloke, isn't it? So then, Jess and fake Connor start chatting back and forth all the time, texting all the time, and they start hanging out in person. And of course, Jess has no idea fake Connor is Gemma, and she starts to really fall hard for him.